Quotes from yesterday's Team Sprint at the 2007 World Championships 1st Place: Italy (Renato Pasini, Cristian Zorzi) (Cristian Zorzi) I’m very happy but it was a little bit of a surprise for me. Inthe morning there were big problems with the rain conditions, but it is the same for all of us. (Renato Pasini) We are a good team, we had a good feeling in this race, and today’s skis were fast. I’m a big...
Source: US Ski Team SAPPORO, Japan (Feb. 23) – U.S. sprinters Kikkan Randall (Anchorage, AK) and Laura Valaas (Wenatchee, WA) narrowly missed qualifying for the freestyle team sprint final heats Friday, finishing just 2.7 seconds out of the top-5 in their semifinal as Finland moved on to take women's gold on Day Two of the 2007 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships. Italy won the men's 1.4K event with the U.S. team (Andy Newell – Shaftsbury,...
Posting a time of 17:50.6, the Italian men's team of Renato Pasini and veteran Christian Zorzi out-stretched Russia to capture gold medals in Day 2 of the 2007 World Championships in Sapporo. In an extremely tight finish to the 6 x 1.4km freestyle team sprint relay event, the Czech Republic was third, Germany fourth, Poland fifth and Canada sixth. The top five teams all finished within one second of eachother, and Canadians Devon and Kershaw...
Fasterskier.com just received these photos of the Team Sprint from Torin Koos. Check them out!
Women's Team Sprint Photos. (Torin Koos photos) Marit (L) vs. Virpi (R)
Next up at the 2007 Nordic World Championships is the Team Sprint event. The two-skier sprint begins at 2 a.m. (ET) at the Dome. For the U.S., the two cross country teams will be Andrew Newell (Shaftsbury, VT) and Torin Koos (Leavenworth, WA) in the men's event, and Kikkan Randall (Anchorage, AK) paired with Laura Valaas (Wenatchee, WA) in the women's race. The Team Sprint this year is skate technique. Each skier will complete 3...
Kikkan Randall In the women's competition, Kikkan Randall (U.S. Ski Team) led the way for North Americans with a 22nd overall finish just ahead of U.S. rookie Laura Valaas in 24th. Randall qualified in 21st and Valaas 23rd before each finished fifth in their respective quarterfinals. Valaas was only 1.4 seconds from the leader of her heat at the finish, while Randall finished 7.6 seconds behind Petra Majdic of Slovenia, who crossed the line first...
We caught up with Kris Freeman in Sapparo, Japan, where the US Ski team is preparing for the 2007 World Champs. With the start of the Championships only 2 days away, Kris was happy to give the US X-C skiing community some insight of what to expect the next 2 weeks in Japan.
The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships debut in Asia from 22nd February to 4th March. FIS President Gian Franco Kasper will open the Championships at the official Opening Ceremony at 18:00 (10:00 CET) today, Thursday, 22nd February. Sapporo Dome Source: FIS
Andrew Newell was first in qualifying in today's World Championship Classic Sprint at the Sapporo Dome in Japan. Four Americans made the elimination heats: Newell, Torin Koos (15th), Kikkan Randall (21st), Laura Valaas (23rd) Follow live results here: http://www.sportresult.com/sports/cc/cc.asp Stay tuned… MEN 1 9 Newell Andrew USA *17:02:15 3:04.71 0.00 Q 2 1 Hjelmeset Odd Bjorn NOR *17:00:15 3:04.93 +0.22 Q 3 10 Joensson Emil SWE *17:02:30 3:05.68 +0.97 Q 4 4 Roenning Eldar NOR...
In one day, the Nordic skiing world will converge upon Sapporo for the 2007 FIS Nordic Ski World Championships to be held there from February 22nd to March 4th. This will be the first time the championships have been held in Asia. Follow along with Fasterskier.com for daily updates and reports from Sapporo.
FasterSkier.com had a chance to ask US Ski Team sprinter Torin Koos a few questions ahead of Wednesday night/early Thursday’s classic sprint race at Worlds. Read about his final preparations and how he is experiencing Japan! Torin at Otepaa World Cup Which races will you ski at Worlds? I plan on racing the sprint and the sprint relay on the 22nd and 23rd in the Sapporo Dome. On the 25th I board a plane headed...
Anders Aukland (NOR) won the 30km classic race in Gran Fondo Val Casies in Italy on Sunday. He feels that he is (finally) getting in shape for the 50km classic race at Sapporo World Championships.
The Norwegian betting company Nordicbet doesn’t believe in World Championship gold for Petter Northug. They have more confidence in Frode Estil, Jens Arne Svartedal and the Norwegian relay team. Petter Northug isn’t considered one of the most obvious favorites in individual events, but he is given better odds at winning in the 4 x 10 kilometer relay or in the two person team sprint.
Viessmann FIS World Cup Cross-Country presented by Rauch at Changchun (CHN) on February 16th, 2007 Katerina Neumannova (CZE) and the World Cup leader Tobias Angerer (GER) won the last race before the World Championships in Sapporo, the Individual competition over 10 km (ladies) and 15 km (men) in free technique in Changchun, China. The favourite Katerina Neumannova could hold the expectations and took the victory clearly 1:08.5 minute ahead of the French Karine Philippot ....
Kris Freeman finished 10th in a World Cup 15K skate race in Changchun, China on Friday. Freeman was one minute and ten seconds behind winner Tobias Angerer of Germany. Frenchmen Vincent Vittoz and Emmanuel Jonnier were second and third. It was a small field for a World Cup race, but Freeman was surrounded by big names, both just ahead and behind him, on the results. Freeman was the lone North American in today's races. In...
Katerina Neumannova (CZE) and the World Cup leader Tobias Angerer (GER) won the last race before the World Championships in Sapporo, the Individual competition over 10 km (ladies) and 15 km (men) in free technique in Changchun, China. The favourite Katerina Neumannova held the expectations and took the victory clearly 1:08.5 minute ahead of the French Karine Philippot . On third place finished Svetlana Malahova (KAZ) 1: 30.4 minute behind the winner. Surprisingly the fourth...
The 20-year-old Evgenia Shapovalova (RUS) and the Norwegian sprinter Ola Vigen Hattestad (NOR) took the victory in today’s classic style Sprint in Changchun (CHN), where today for the second time in the history of the FIS World Cup Cross-Country a World Cup competition took place. Evgenia Shapovalova took her first World Cup victory ever under bright sunny skies in Changchun (CHN), ahead of her team-mate Natalia Matveeva and the Norwegian Guro Strom Solli. On fourth...
In Wednesday's World Cup sprint race in Changchun, China, Kikkan Randall was 4th in qualifying and ended up 7th overall. After great showings in the qualifying round, the US Team men were not able to advance beyond the first round in the elimination heats. In qualifying, Andy Newell finished eighth, while Torin Koos finished 12th. But both were eliminated in their quarterfinal heat. Newell just barely missed moving on, finishing third in his heat. He...
A snowstorm has created problems for World Cup skiers ahead of Thursdays sprint races in Changchun, China. Norwegian skistars Hjelmeset and Svartedal have spent more than 30 hours at the Beijing airport.